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The show's rich history is marked by its association with several prominent local figures. Notably, Dennis Egan, a former mayor of Juneau, was a key personality in shaping the show's direction in the 1980s.
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Speaker 2:And good morning, Juno, KINY ninety four point nine FM and always 800. It is Wednesday Problem Corner, and I'm Justin Miller hanging out with y'all from the Goldblood Trim Studio. And today I'm joined by Devin Sickler, who has not been able to join me for a little bit, but I'm glad to have her hanging out in the studio on this Wednesday. What's been going on in Devin's world?
Speaker 3:Well, have a 13 old that doesn't, she doesn't sit well in the studio.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:You know, and she shouldn't sit well. She's a one year old.
Speaker 2:That'll be an interesting problem corner with the one year old.
Speaker 3:She's got a lot to say lately. I bet she I think she's gonna have some big opinions that I cannot wait till she starts calling in on her own. I'm gonna have to make sure that we keep that number on the fridge because I'm sure it's gonna be something like, I can't find the Cheerios, the, you know.
Speaker 2:Mom, I can't find the Cheerios on Problem Corner, but it looks like we already got a call. So let's get things rolling on this Wednesday. Hi, welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 4:Hi, how are you doing?
Speaker 2:I'm doing all right. How are you doing today?
Speaker 4:I just, I'm doing laundry today.
Speaker 3:It's a good day for it.
Speaker 2:Oh, good.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Hi. My name is Mikey Chowdhun.
Speaker 2:Hey, Mikey. Should have your voice memorized or, like, at least be able to pick up your voice now.
Speaker 4:It's okay. I just got done. My hair got shaved off because I lost water here yesterday.
Speaker 2:Oh, dang.
Speaker 4:So I'll do a shout out to people in Haines. I am a very bushed ear. My
Speaker 5:November part, November, December,
Speaker 4:and August, all the months, morning, we do house sitting, for dog care. And when you go on vacation, then I do any other, from home to there, and then they'll go back to home.
Speaker 5:Gotcha.
Speaker 4:And, also, house cleaning also if they want me to do that, and I do need some tran transportation to get back and forth. So, my number is 90752611.
Speaker 2:Alrighty, mister. I got that written down. I'll keep shouting out your services and see if we can get you some gigs this winter.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Yeah. We'll talk about doing the different different chemo, so it could be I might have to go back down to June to make my chemo much stronger right now.
Speaker 2:Oh, gotcha.
Speaker 4:It's, I'm fighting it right now. So it's.
Speaker 2:Our hearts and prayers are going out to you, Mikey, as you fight that battle. So does Hanes give radiation I'm and
Speaker 4:trying to, but now it's like I had to go up my head so nobody would make fun of me no more.
Speaker 2:Know when we go through chemo and, yeah, you start getting the patches falling out and, yeah, then your hair looks a little uneven, but, yeah,
Speaker 4:it is a bummer. Yeah. Did had to finish shaking my head off yesterday because my lady that does my haircut free did not pull out my gauze, and she stopped using the clippers, and she knows the hair was falling out. So I tell her, yeah, well, I tell her that had to shave it off. So y'all guys could find me on the Facebook page.
Speaker 4:I did a, story about myself and my chemo. So, check and look at it and wanna, do a feedback on me. You always go down the Facebook page. Awesome. Okay.
Speaker 2:So if people wanna learn more about your story, you posted it on Facebook?
Speaker 4:Yes, sir. I did. Alright. And my like I said, my number again is 90752611.
Speaker 2:Alright, Mikey. I got that. We're fighting, we're shooting round, we're rooting for you as you fight through this cancer battle and yeah, our hearts go out to you, mister. So we'll try to get you some gigs and we'll keep rooting for you here in Juneau.
Speaker 4:Okay. Thank you, buddy.
Speaker 2:No problem, mister. You have
Speaker 6:a good rest
Speaker 2:of your day.
Speaker 5:Bye. Alright.
Speaker 2:Bye bye.
Speaker 3:Oh my goodness. That just like, gets me.
Speaker 2:Know, fighting cancer is always a tough one. And me and Kenny have definitely talked about it a lot because obviously Kenny being part of Bartlett and all that, he's always a huge advocate for cancer screening and all the treatment and whatnot. It is a huge battle. I've dealt with it in my own family and see just the toll it takes on your body dealing with that. And so, yeah, I'm rooting for Mikey and let's see if we can get him some gigs up in Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and his full story, he said his full story's on Facebook. So if you want to learn more about him, just go find him on Facebook.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and Mikey, I'm so glad that you call into us if you're still listening out there. Of course we want to do everything we can to help you and support you during this hard time and no one fights alone.
Speaker 2:No one fights alone.
Speaker 3:And Juneau community is incredible. I know the Haines community is just as incredible. So, yeah.
Speaker 2:And we do got another call. Let's jump right to it. Hi, welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 7:Hey, Justin. It's Maggie.
Speaker 2:Hey, Maggie. How's it going?
Speaker 7:I'm calling from Klingit and Haida. We are doing our elders' winter care packages, and we have nine more days for tribal citizen elders to sign up for that program. And if they would like to, they just have to call (907) 463-7999.
Speaker 2:7999. So tell us a little bit more about that elder winter package, like what's involved with it and what's
Speaker 7:Well, started out during ARPA, during COVID. We wanted a way to make sure we could get supplies to our elder citizens, like masks and gloves and things like that. And it's transformed over the over the years. This year, the Tlingit and Haida Foundation took it on, and we fundraised to to keep the program afloat. And so they're really meant just to be packages to remind our elders during the holidays that we're thinking about them and that we care about them here at the tribe.
Speaker 2:Awesome. Great. I got that written down. We could shout that out throughout the program. Is there anything else you want to throw out there, Maggie?
Speaker 7:No, I just hope you guys have a great day. Thanks for giving me some time on the radio
Speaker 2:this Of course, anytime. Feel free to give us a call on anything Clincoln High has got going on or need to make an announcement about. So, yeah, I appreciate you calling in today.
Speaker 7:Awesome. Have a great day, Justin.
Speaker 2:You as well. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 3:Another one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 3:I love it. I love it. I wonder, I'd love to know what's in those boxes, but I hope that the elders out there that can take advantage of this need to take advantage of this do. Yeah. Give Maggie.
Speaker 3:I don't know if that's Maggie's number or if that's just the Klinger
Speaker 4:Haida
Speaker 2:number. So again, the number is (907) 463-7999. If you are an elder or know of an elder that might benefit from that package, just give them a call and they could help set you up with it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no secret that it's getting chilly out there. I know living in the valley, I keep an eye on Thunder Mountain and watch the snow come down and it's like, you know, about how long I have until the snow gets to the bottom of Thunder Mountain and then obviously it snows in the valley. Yeah. But I know, I'm I'm thinking we're like two weeks out. I don't know, that's just my estimate.
Speaker 3:What do you think? You're in the valley?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm in the valley. I'm kind of in the back loop area, so same thing. I use Thunder Mound as a weather tell or even Mount Bullard sometimes since I have kind of a clear view of that and Thunder Mound as I'm leaving So yeah, once it hits that tree line, you kind of know snow is creeping down, it's gonna be happening very, very soon. And I was trying to do like a pool of bets here on the program. I've had a couple of people participate and I think their two dates was very close together.
Speaker 2:It was November 11 and November 12 for the possible first snowfall that might hit down and actually might stick or hang out for a little bit. So we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 3:You know, I always have to tell myself, give myself a little pep talk that the first, the first snow never sticks. And so I just have to keep that in mind that maybe it'll go away for a little bit. I'm not a snow fan though. Not a big snow fan. I wish I was, wish I could enjoy it more.
Speaker 3:I just like to be warm.
Speaker 2:Your little one's first official winter being mobile. So it might be a little different, might be a little more fun this winter for
Speaker 3:It the definitely will be. You should see her in a pair of boots though. Oh my goodness, it's hilarious.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like a little drunk Yeah, munchkin.
Speaker 3:A little Bambi on Ice actually going on out there.
Speaker 2:Awesome. Well, let's take a look at some emails we got. I know we got one email that submitted today. This person's got a Traeger Woodridge Pro pellet grill, and they also have an Oak Ford 1,400 vertical pellet smoker. They're in excellent condition.
Speaker 2:They're asking $800 for both or best offer. It's (907) 723-9948 for more information. Those are nice grills, especially if you are avid griller or even barbecuer, that might be the next step up for your own setup. Like I'm still using propane grill. I'd love to dip into the Treger world and get that smoky flavor on things.
Speaker 3:That'll change your life. I love Treger, I do. I still, I don't think that he can beat a just like regular charcoal grill, the flavor that comes with that. But Treger, yeah, love it. I it.
Speaker 2:Never had
Speaker 3:good I
Speaker 2:never had good luck with charcoal grills. I can never get it hot enough. So I'm always like on the grill for longer than I should be if I was using a charcoal grill. So that's why I'm like, I'm just gonna stick with my clean, efficient propane.
Speaker 3:Maybe that's why guys spend so much time around the grill. Maybe it's maybe it's something about the heat. I don't know. I just noticed that, you know, when my husband is grilling anything, it's and we're around other people. For whatever reason, the guys always congregate right around the grill.
Speaker 3:And I always wonder why they're doing that. If they're all why do they all have to stand around the same grill? And they're all they're they're talking. I don't know if they're talking about the grill or if they're just all looking at the meat grilling and talking about other things but they're all making direct eye contact with whatever's on the grill. Cracks me up every time.
Speaker 8:Well, I don't
Speaker 2:know if I should share that male secret on the air why we congregate around the barbecue. The main thing is, especially like each guy has their own specific way of grilling. I'm a very time oriented griller, so depending on the type of protein I'm cooking, it's all about time. So if I'm doing steak or whatnot, it's usually
Speaker 6:a
Speaker 2:few minutes per side, and I keep flipping it, so I'm timing it and checking it, but some people more go for like the look of it and I don't know, everyone kinda grills differently.
Speaker 3:Right, it's a secret. That's probably what they're talking about is like, I'm going by time, it's time to flip that. No, it's not.
Speaker 2:You probably should flip that now. So in the spirit of grilling, again, if you're interested in those Traeger or the 14, the Oak Ford pellet smoker, the number is 9077239948. And yeah, so we're kinda talking a little bit before the program started about, obviously, we all know about federal shutdowns and all that happening, especially those folks that are using SNAP benefits, but you actually stumbled across something on Facebook about folks in the community compiling like food baskets.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I've seen a couple times now that there's just incredible. I mean, we have such an incredible community here in Juneau. But numerous people I've seen on like my Facebook friends have compiled these food baskets and have put posts out there that if any of their friends in need, they knew somebody in need, whatever it was, if they needed food, they wanted to provide it and they'd created these food baskets for these families or individuals that were that were suffering right now. And I just I mean, like I said, the Juno community is incredible.
Speaker 3:They never cease to amaze me though. They never cease to amaze me. They always surprise me with these kind of things. They always, know, pull something out of their hat to to help their friends and neighbors. So, you know, I just want to encourage folks that if you are suffering right now, you do not have to suffer in silence.
Speaker 3:Please reach out, reach out to us, reach out to your community. You can put things anonymously on Facebook. Yeah, even here Or on right here on KINY. Reach out, let's get you what you need or connect you with somebody who can.
Speaker 2:Yeah, especially now that we're I'm always saying is like, even though we're in the spirit of giving, is it always, every time, every year is always the time of giving, but obviously during the holiday season, that's when people definitely rally behind is like, make sure the food banks are stocked up for folks that need those services, especially during the holiday time, just kind of make sure their tables are a little more full, especially during Thanksgiving, or even just family dinners for that matter, and feeding your kids and your family. So yeah, reach out to food banks, reach out to your community, see what your need is and see if we can
Speaker 3:help We want to support you. We want to support you. I know other people do as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely. Looking at yesterday, not a whole lot of calls. Mikey called yesterday, but then we still have those 200 movies for sale. I'm gonna beat her to it before she calls the program. She's been a frequent caller, but I'll help her out and see if anyone's still interested in those movies or selling them for $150.200 movies.
Speaker 2:I don't know where they're hanging out today, but the number to call is (907) 500-5179. And then I don't know if this person got rid the treadmill or not, but I'll shout it out one more time. Someone's got a free treadmill. They could transport it, but they need help loading it up into their rig. Or if you're willing to just pick up and grab it from them, the number to call is (907) 780-6664.
Speaker 2:All right, folks. Phone lines are still hot and open. I know me and Devin are chitchatting a bit, but feel free to interrupt us anytime by giving us a call at (907) 586-1800. Sometimes I like to do a little trivia. Was teasing Devin a little bit on this before, but since the new Bruce Springsteen movie just came out not that long ago, and since Kenny's a huge supporter of the program, he has hooked me up with some movie passes.
Speaker 3:So So
Speaker 2:I'm willing to give a couple away today with some Bruce Springsteen, not really trivia, but a song guest. So it's really more so like, can you guess the song?
Speaker 3:And I'm if you do so bad at these. I'm so bad at these.
Speaker 2:So let's see what I kind of jumped ahead. I wanted to go a little harder for those. I wanted to hook someone up that is a Bruce Springsteen fan. So I scooched a little farther along in the video here to kind of give a tease. So let's see what our first teaser is.
Speaker 2:So here it is, folks.
Speaker 3:Oh my goodness.
Speaker 5:That's all
Speaker 2:you get, That's it? That's it. You get six seconds of audio, and if you could call me up what that song is, then I might be able to hook you up with some movie tickets. So yeah, give me a call if you know that song, 907561800. Should I play it one more time actually?
Speaker 2:I think I should.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah. Okay, here it goes, folks. Listen close because I guess I didn't realize how quickly six seconds goes by.
Speaker 2:I do gotta call one more time. Hang out there, caller. I'm gonna play that one more time for you. Oh, not I'm muted. There we go.
Speaker 2:Here we go. We'll play that one more time. Okay. Is Just
Speaker 3:when you start to get into it.
Speaker 2:I know. Right when I
Speaker 3:get this caller knows. I bet that's exactly why they're
Speaker 2:Let's see. Let's see what your guess is, caller. Oh, wrong button. Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:You're live and on the air.
Speaker 6:Could it be glory days?
Speaker 3:You gotta do this. I did. That I said I know this caller knows. You called so quickly. It was like they they have to know what it is.
Speaker 6:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 8:That's a
Speaker 6:great great tune. Great tune.
Speaker 3:Awesome.
Speaker 2:Awesome. You won two movie tickets to Glacier Cinemas. Would you like one or both both tickets?
Speaker 6:Both tickets, please.
Speaker 2:Okay. Two tickets.
Speaker 3:And Who are taking with you?
Speaker 6:I don't know yet. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 3:Very cool.
Speaker 2:What is your first name for me so I could write it down and you could swing by the station and snag those up?
Speaker 6:I don't know. The cops usually call me show stopper.
Speaker 2:Show stopper. I'm writing it down. So if you roll up here at the station, I'm show stopper, and then I'm gonna hook you up with those tickets.
Speaker 3:And if you don't tell us that name, we won't know who you are. So
Speaker 9:You may use my government name today. Awesome.
Speaker 3:Yes. Congratulations. Good listening.
Speaker 6:Thank you, guys. Yeah. You guys got a great program going today.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you.
Speaker 3:Awesome. We love that.
Speaker 6:Alright. I'm gonna get off the line here. Let someone else get on.
Speaker 3:Alrighty. Have a good one.
Speaker 2:Thanks for the call and
Speaker 6:thanks for Have good one.
Speaker 2:You as well.
Speaker 6:Yeah. Glory days.
Speaker 2:Glory days. Got that right. Awesome. Sweet.
Speaker 3:Okay. Did you make that too was that too easy or or am I just not good at this?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I feel like a guy in no
Speaker 3:He knew.
Speaker 2:Spruce Springs thing,
Speaker 8:so I'm supposed to
Speaker 5:be able to get it.
Speaker 2:So we'll get this next call on. Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 8:Justin from just out. How's it going, man?
Speaker 2:Oh, it's doing good. How are you?
Speaker 5:I'm doing the third party party, but that's my answer every time. Hey. Did somebody already guess the song?
Speaker 2:Yeah. They did. So, yeah, they guessed glory days as
Speaker 5:Glory days.
Speaker 2:Yeah. That was the song.
Speaker 5:I wouldn't have been able to step in the knee anyway. I'm together called from Utah.
Speaker 2:So Oh, it wasn't Utah.
Speaker 3:Utah? Okay. You got snow there yet?
Speaker 10:He was
Speaker 2:from Alaska, and now he's living over in Utah.
Speaker 3:Is there snow in Utah?
Speaker 2:No. No snow yet?
Speaker 5:Very little dusting up high.
Speaker 3:Oh, gotcha. That's here too. Here too.
Speaker 5:We're in mid sixties for the day.
Speaker 8:Oh. It cools down
Speaker 5:on that, of course.
Speaker 3:Oh my goodness. What I wouldn't give for mid sixties during the day right now.
Speaker 5:Okay. I'm from Huna, so
Speaker 8:anybody listening to Huna. Hello, everybody.
Speaker 3:Oh, big shout to Huna.
Speaker 5:Than that. Yes. Thanks for your program, Have a good day. Yeah. No problem.
Speaker 2:Thank for
Speaker 3:the call. Care.
Speaker 2:Okay. Alright. Bye bye.
Speaker 3:All the way from Utah. Love that.
Speaker 2:Yeah. He's been calling pretty frequently. It's always good to hear from him. And we do got another call. Hi.
Speaker 2:Welcome to problem corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 11:Good morning.
Speaker 2:Good morning. What can we do for you today?
Speaker 11:This is Rowena. Some folks call me RJ. I phoned in yesterday regarding some general government, I don't know if you call them complaints, more like awareness. Anyhow, I just wanted to send my wishes out to the young woman who was in the unfortunate vehicle accident yesterday. Was a lot of black ice everywhere.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I drove right by that during right after that happened, actually.
Speaker 11:I heard the sirens from town. But anyhow and thank you for your program.
Speaker 2:Of course.
Speaker 11:Know, I've been doing my activism since election night twenty twenty four, and it it gave me a lot of hope after seeing the nationwide election results yesterday. And I just wanna give America a big pat on the back for stepping up. You know, a lot of people call it gerrymandering or whatever you wanna call, you know, all this political stuff. I've never been a huge political person. Even though I was a tribal member and a delegate.
Speaker 11:I did it because I was honored to have been nominated. Oh. So anyhow, again, heartfelt wishes of hope and healing for the young woman. I I understand she was 22, if I heard correctly. And, yeah, way to go America.
Speaker 11:Awesome. We're fighting fire with fire with things like prop 50. And I don't claim to be a Republican or Democrat, I'm a human being. Hopefully we all are in this day and age. Thank you so much, goodness gracious.
Speaker 2:Of course, no problem. Thank you for calling with your words.
Speaker 11:Oh, you're welcome.
Speaker 2:Right, you have a good rest of your day. It's good hearing Take from care.
Speaker 3:I love it. Messages of hope, healing, positivity.
Speaker 2:Positivity. I like that.
Speaker 3:I love that on this show.
Speaker 2:Alright. We got another call. Let's get them on, and we'll take a commercial break. Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:You're live and on the air.
Speaker 12:Hi. I just wanted to comment about the new speed limit right past McDonald's. This morning, we were going to speed limit, hang up, flipped off, and going to speed limit. So I wanna thank all of Juno who is slowing down because that can be a dangerous spot
Speaker 8:Mhmm.
Speaker 12:Right in front of Fred Meyer. And just to please remember that it's 45 miles per hour. And please adhere to that. We're not trying to slow you down. That's the law.
Speaker 12:That's the speed limit.
Speaker 2:It is. Thank
Speaker 8:you so much.
Speaker 2:Of course, that's a good reminder to the community. Thank you so much for calling with that. And we'll also echo that throughout the program today.
Speaker 12:Thank you so much.
Speaker 2:Of course. Bye bye. Thank you for the call. Yeah, I know last year was the first year that 45 was implemented and it definitely threw a lot of people for a loop, but it really helps a lot. Like obviously when I'm going back home from leaving the station at the end of the day, if people are making that turn to Fred Meyer's, they have so much more time and it definitely makes them feel safer that they have time to be able to get over there and not feel like, Oh, dang, I'm gonna have to wait here or sit here forever because everyone's just zooming by.
Speaker 2:But now it's like, actually have more time to actually make that turn And so that is the reason why we have changed that speed limit to 45 from November, I believe, through January is when it starts to kind of cut off.
Speaker 3:Is it that? Is it that?
Speaker 2:It's pretty short. I think they do it for the initial start of winter just because, obviously, people are readjusting their driving styles from summer driving to winter driving, and we just want everyone to stay safe in that area. And yeah, we don't want crazy wrecks happening.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, and I'm not gonna say too much about the intersection because I feel like we hear about that intersection We've all the
Speaker 2:talked about that quite a bit, but it is 11:30, it's time to take our quick commercial bake break. We'll be back with more problem corner on KINY.
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Speaker 1:Now back to problem corner, where our community meets to talk, trade, and share.
Speaker 2:And welcome back to problem corner here on KINY. I'm Justin Miller hanging out y'all from the Goldbug Tram Studio, and I'm joined by Devin Stickler as well today on this Wednesday. Wednesday.
Speaker 3:Hump day. Halfway through. I guess we're, you know, right at that peak of the week. Peak of the week.
Speaker 2:Peak of the, that's a better way of calling it. Know. Peak of the week. Peak of the week. I might start using that now.
Speaker 2:It's like hump day. We do got a couple calls already, so let's jump right to it. Hi, welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 5:Good morning. I had an idea. We used to have a disaster tax and a school tax, and now they have this problem with the food stamps. If they would add that, if we could bring that back, you know, something we used they used to take our first paycheck at each month, not each month, but each year for the disaster tax and and and for the school tax. And then we can add another one, and you're like 50 well, I think, like, dollars or something like that.
Speaker 5:So when we have these emergencies like this, since we have these problems in our country right now, our state, just the way we handle it years ago, we didn't didn't have to worry about anything because they had the money already there.
Speaker 2:And the
Speaker 5:bill brings that back, you know, the school tax and and the disaster tax, and then just other tax, like for homelessness and and SNAP and and helping people out. It wouldn't wouldn't have to go to the legislature because the money would be already there. And except one one time a year, they only do it once a year on your first paycheck. It was just a thought, you know?
Speaker 2:That's
Speaker 3:definitely I'm a aware of that. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2:a good mindset and a good idea.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I don't know how many people in here, Our family's been here since '19 you know, the end of last century, not, you know, the eighteenth century. And we had disaster attacks all the way up all the way up till we had the permanent fund started in the seventies. And you can any old timers will tell you about it. And it's it'll solve all the we should solve all these problems real easy. And and everybody could get helped out and wouldn't hurt anybody.
Speaker 5:And they can they can have all the shutdowns in the government they wanted and everything was taken care of.
Speaker 2:It's definitely a great idea, I wonder. So that would be state statewide, we'd to initiate that as far as state of Alaska?
Speaker 5:If you really think about it, Alaska, we you know, prior to the the pipeline, you know, the villages never had any money or anything, and they got by and the Red Cross would would send some food if they needed it. But we never any these problems. We were Alaskan people worked for Alaskan people, you know, helped out. Yeah. Just like you know?
Speaker 5:And if if we could get back to the way it was, and it it would take a lot understanding the way it used to be. It was called hard good. We we would go all winter, you know, and we most of us didn't even have electricity in our house until 08/1982. Mhmm. We never had me in the village.
Speaker 5:I was from up there in White Mountain, Hall Of Nome, and we never had electricity in till 1982. And we got by, you know, most me, you know, and kids went to school and everything. And we we a lot of times, we just had moose meat, rice, and gravy, and oatmeal in the morning. And then when they did arrive, people came through. We'd go to town and we'd splurge and buy maple syrup and bacon and eggs for for all the mushers like Rick Swenson and, you know, and Dick Mackay and and all the old guys and Vaughn.
Speaker 5:And yeah. So just just And most of the Tlingit people in town remember these the old days. But if we could get back to, like, the old days, a little mixture of the old and the new, it's just like it would work. It wouldn't be a problem if if people knew how we lived years ago. And we we never we never had any problems where everybody worked together.
Speaker 5:If I got a you didn't have any your your your family, we all chipped in. If I had the Bible got fish and you didn't have we always just we just gave it out.
Speaker 12:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's a great idea.
Speaker 3:Yeah, not so much the every man for themselves.
Speaker 2:I think we were talking about that the other day, was like, imagine if like the Juno community could be able to split up like that and like have, it's like, oh, I got deer meat and then we could trade or I can give you, obviously, can't really sell it, but like you're saying, callers, like being able to help out our neighbors in that sense.
Speaker 5:If you wanna think of something, only worked in the summertime. We we would go commercial fishing, or work for DOT on the road. And then in the wintertime, we trapped. Well, there was no paycheck. We had a store, but but they'd only bring in supplies once once a month, and it wasn't like it is now.
Speaker 5:You know? They only brought, like, canned goods and very few fresh vegetables, and we could grow vegetables. And in in the summertime, we had turnip potatoes would be real small, but turnip would be as big as a basketball.
Speaker 6:Oh,
Speaker 5:wow. But I better get off here now, but I just food for thought that people would talk about it more. And and Alaskan people, you know, I think this election that we had the other yesterday give a it gave a little bit of hope. Yeah. I'm a re I'm and I, you know, I I'm a realistic person.
Speaker 5:You know? It's like somebody said,
Speaker 4:you know, we're all human beings. We're not
Speaker 5:a democrat or republican or whatever. We're human beings. But we are inside that, we're Alaskans.
Speaker 10:Mhmm.
Speaker 5:And we're a different breed of people. And the people would get back the way it was and forget about a republican or democrat or whatever, we're we're Alaskans. We made this state. Our parents, our grandparents, they fought and everything. And if we could get back that way and teach our younger generation that you don't need a lot of money to live in Alaska, really, if you come right down to it.
Speaker 5:If you ask the elders, we we went all winter and we sell our furs or something like that. We get enough to get a new snow machine or we needed a part for our boat or something like that. But money wasn't all the problem, wasn't it? We worked out everything. Everything we needed, we worked out.
Speaker 5:We mend our nets and everything, but I better get off the air and let somebody else get in.
Speaker 8:Oh, no. Yeah.
Speaker 2:You're good. I appreciate the suggestion and
Speaker 3:I The insight.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I hope folks are listening and go back to that lifestyle or we push to get back to that ability and yeah, let's try to figure out a solution as far as feeding our families this winter.
Speaker 5:I also one thing before I go, That that yesterday, I heard something. And Charles Charles is one of the best carpenters around. I'm I I had a friend he made a porch for.
Speaker 22:I couldn't
Speaker 5:believe that Charles was on there and somebody was talking about, if we would all get back to where it was. You know, we never had problems before like that.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 5:We all together. My
Speaker 8:I'm I'm Caucasian,
Speaker 5:my wife and my children are all native and we never had problems. And if we can get back to the way it was, we would have a wonderful state.
Speaker 2:We would indeed. And
Speaker 5:more the values of what we go through.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Well, I appreciate your call, mister. I do have another call hanging out. They've been patiently waiting, but I greatly appreciate your call and I hope you have a great rest of your day. Thank you so much for that call and sharing some insight on that.
Speaker 2:We'll jump to this next call. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 23:Yes, I have a suggestion Fred Meyer's intersection.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 23:I'm thinking the roundabout on Eagan Drive would be safe because I've never known a roundabout, there's five of them in Juneau that have ever had an accident. So that's an idea to put out there.
Speaker 2:I know we've tossed around that idea on the program before, and I think they actually released a proposal on the possible changes on that intersection. I saw something on Facebook, I think yesterday or the day before of like the possibility of a light being right there. But yeah, I feel like a roundabout would be a good solution, but it's such a weird zone too, and the amount of work that would be to make a roundabout, but I definitely see it being a possibility and how it could help.
Speaker 23:Nothing's impossible.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm not saying it is impossible. What I'm saying is just, it would just be quite the process to be able to construct a roundabout right there, I think. That's why I think they're But thinking a traffic light then we have double traffic lights. We'll have the one at Nugget Intersection, and then there will be another one right there at Fred Myers, and it'll just be kind of a, I feel like it would congest it a little bit, but we could only hope and see what kind of work gets done over there.
Speaker 8:Well,
Speaker 23:lights are an idea. I still think the roundabout right there on Eagan Drive would be sufficient. They do follow that. I mean, it's inevitable. I'm just putting it out there.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, I appreciate you throwing it out there. I always like hearing the communities inputting ideas on changes that we could do here in Juneau. So is there anything else you wanna throw out there while I still have you on the program?
Speaker 23:Not really. I was just listening to the radio and I'd thought about it before, but I'd never called up and said anything.
Speaker 2:Oh, well, appreciate you calling up and throwing it out there then.
Speaker 8:Okay, you have a good day.
Speaker 2:You as well. Thanks for calling in and giving us that idea. Bye. All right, bye bye.
Speaker 3:The caller before her made me think of something. I actually saw it on Facebook the other day and they were Huge shout out to Haines High School because they're doing great things. They doing great things over there. I saw that there was a community member in Haynes that got a moose and donated it to the Haynes High School where all of the students there got to learn how to butcher this, how to process it, and then all of that meat was being used in their school lunch program.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow.
Speaker 3:That is so cool.
Speaker 2:That is pretty cool.
Speaker 3:So cool. I mean, obviously we don't have moose here, but that's incredible.
Speaker 2:I feel like Mr. Hawkins did that once upon a time at Juno Douglas High School.
Speaker 3:We didn't get to eat them though.
Speaker 2:I know, but you still process a deer, I think, or something like that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you got extra credit if you brought in something dead for him. Oh. Yeah. I remember I did sportsman's biology, outdoor bio they call it, but it was like a sportsman's biology. I did two years of that because I really, really liked it.
Speaker 3:Huge shout out to Mr. Hopkins if he's out there listening because he was an incredible teacher.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Had him for an
Speaker 3:incredible educator. Incredible educator, I should say. And yeah, if you brought dead things into him that we could cut up respectfully, we got extra credit and I went home with a dead duck head in my pocket because one of the boys in class thought that would be funny.
Speaker 2:Just sliding the duck head into your pocket?
Speaker 3:Into my coat pocket. I didn't notice it till I got home and reached for my chopstick and you can only imagine my surprise and my jaw just about hit the floor when I pulled because I didn't know what it was. It's a poison
Speaker 6:in my pocket.
Speaker 3:Until I pulled it out of my coat pocket and it was a duck head.
Speaker 2:Oh gosh.
Speaker 3:A mallard.
Speaker 2:Was it all bloody or is it hopefully
Speaker 6:dry enough?
Speaker 3:No. Was a little dry. Was
Speaker 2:That is nasty. Yeah. But we do got a couple more calls. We got about ten more minutes before I do a wrap up. So let's get them on the show.
Speaker 3:Let's hear it.
Speaker 2:Hi, welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 8:Yeah, I was just calling in, heard one of your calls before that talking about the way it should have been. You know, and I listened to your news and came in our statewide news about these big cruise ships called Greywater Dumping. How they got over 20
Speaker 2:Right. Yeah.
Speaker 8:Mines for gray water dumping. Whether you're a corporation or not, a lot of them that belong to corporation are tribal members, and tribal members are supposed to protect our way of life. Mhmm. You know, that's building something in Douglas for those big cruise ships and, you know, it's gonna contaminate the water. It's already contaminated the water.
Speaker 8:Once our gung hoots are gone and there are clams and cockles. Yeah. That's And the seaweed
Speaker 2:huge thing.
Speaker 8:Yeah. What are we gonna protect, you know, what coal belt should be? Maybe build a ferry like our state ferry system. You know, I I remember when they first came out when they even talked into our community and said they're gonna a ferry system to take us to Juneau, to Sitka, you know. And when it came about, there was so much tourist on there.
Speaker 8:We couldn't even get a board and walk on.
Speaker 2:What? That's crazy.
Speaker 8:Yeah. That's the way it was. And then now now they're not thinking about it unless you put a lot of money in to build new new big ferries and where is that? Mhmm. I never hear nothing about them state talking about we're building big ferries.
Speaker 8:Why doesn't Goldbelt go in and build big ferries and do away with these big cruise ships dumping that and contaminating our waterways? You know, a lot of our in our communities, a lot of our elders and stuff are passing away from cancer. Is that clear water dumping doing that to us? You know, we like to live off the land. Like to get our gumboots or clams and cockles, seaweed.
Speaker 8:Is it contaminating it? Is that why people are dying from it from this cancer and stuff? No, that's not That's
Speaker 3:good question.
Speaker 8:That's not right for what's going on. You know?
Speaker 2:It's not. I know.
Speaker 8:Our elders used to our elders used to speak and say, someday our food we like is gonna be gone.
Speaker 2:And we're nearing
Speaker 8:close that listening to it, you know? All my elders now too, but I used to listen to our elders talk. They talk about stuff like this, you know, and I felt I had a bad dream that where I said I can't when I can I just like to go out and get gumbo, and and it didn't look right? So I I feel it's coming soon.
Speaker 2:It is indeed. And then we
Speaker 8:are It's gonna be contaminated and you know? That that's what our people should be talking at their corporations for. Let's save our food.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 8:Let's build our let's build our state ferry system and let them go back and forth. You know? It's it's not right because we only get one berry every two weeks. And that's pretty bad for a small community like us. And two of us are like that, us and and Gooey and Cake.
Speaker 8:We only get a berry once every two weeks.
Speaker 2:And then you have to stay where you're at for two weeks until you could get out of there to go back home. And it's just it's bananas that operates that way.
Speaker 8:You could come down a Wednesday and then come back on a Saturday. And that's a long ride when you're deciding whether you're gonna go to have to go to Cake first and then come to Angoon or go to Angoon then to Cake. That's a long ride.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 8:For these two communities to put up with that ferry at once every two weeks, and we're living on high cost food in our community. Not only that, but our fuel. Yes. What's going on now, you know?
Speaker 2:It is a scary future that we are nearing for sure. And we hear you here on Problem Corner. We gotta fight for our wild food sources and our food supplies and gotta make sure we're better connected in our Southeast communities. But I do appreciate your call. Do have another call on
Speaker 8:Yeah, that's what's affecting you guys' salmon, Derby too. Maybe that's why your king salmon are getting so small.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, that's also part of the And overfishing and all yeah, I appreciate your call.
Speaker 8:No, not overfishing.
Speaker 2:Oh, not overfishing, but I know sometimes with bycatching and commercial fishing definitely narrows that king salmon population though.
Speaker 8:Yeah, well, they introduced a permit system. That's what happened to the small community We don't have no saners, no chores in our community. The state took it away from the rural communities. There's none around. Maybe one community has one fishing boat and that's it.
Speaker 8:Maybe they don't have any. Our community don't have any anymore chain boats because of that permit system.
Speaker 2:All
Speaker 8:right, Thank you for the program.
Speaker 2:Of course, I always appreciate hearing from you and hearing your insight on things. So I hope you have a good rest of your day and we'll hear from you soon.
Speaker 8:Okay, bye.
Speaker 2:All right, goodbye. Good hearing from him as always, he's one of our frequent callers and we'll get to this next call. Hi, welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 22:Oh, good morning. I just had a suggestion about what they can do about certain things, food items that they provide for the food banks.
Speaker 4:Mhmm.
Speaker 22:A suggestion would be start taking food items off of the shelf about at least three days before the expiration date. Because a lot of us people have to take a city bus or waste their gas money to go down to the food banks, and we end up rotting food. And we end up bringing it home, it ends up in the trash. Oh. Because the sellers are just, just as runny as slime.
Speaker 22:And it's really horrific, you know, that we spend a lot of people spend their hard tax or in dollars to get the food all the way from wherever they have to ship it from to get here because they have to, you know, send it over on barges and everything. That costs a lot of fuel. And then why waste all that food? And then people who are in need, we go down to the food banks, and we got rotting salads that and we open it up. You were gonna get a good salad, and we have to spend our bus money and our gas money to go pick that stuff up.
Speaker 22:That's just not fair to us.
Speaker 2:It isn't.
Speaker 22:It's really And then I also feel like the people who are suffering from SNAP benefits, that maybe they should put those people back on wick so that the milk doesn't rot or the eggs don't rot. Mhmm. You know, the food isn't rotting on the shelves or we're eating that with stale rotten food. And those are my suggestions that maybe they could pass along to the community and the stores here in town. And then that way, you know, you're not throwing food and wasting all the food in the dumpsters, or we're wasting our gas money just to go get food to try to put it on the table.
Speaker 22:That's just wrong.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 6:Instead
Speaker 22:of snapshots being, you know, no longer a thing or something or whatever they're doing, try to put those people who are suffering and those people who have children who need milk and eggs and and tuna fish and beans and things like that. Put them back on Wick so that they don't end up with sick children. Other than that, have a great day. Those are my suggestions.
Speaker 3:Thank you
Speaker 2:very for appreciate that. Alright. We got time for one more call, and then we'll do a quick recap. Let's get them on the show. Hi.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 10:Yeah. Hey. Thank you for taking my call. I I I just called in because I got so frustrated listening to that previous caller. I know her heart's in the right place, but this is just indicative of the total disconnect that people have between, you know, how business works and the economy works and in in a free market and socialism.
Speaker 10:Right now, she's asking those store owners to basically give up profit, and the grocery business is one of the lowest profit margins businesses there is. I'm not in that business, but I I know a lot of people that are. I've known a lot of others over the years, and I know just how thin the margins are. And for them to give up three days worth of revenue on that food and incidentally, a sidebar on that is, unfortunately, our whole food chain runs on a just in time premise. So getting rid of that food three days early, the shelves would be bare for the last couple of days before the Monday barge came in.
Speaker 10:So it's all fine and dandy to think that the the business owner should just give away, you know, $3 or three days worth of revenue, but that would directly translate into much higher cost for your groceries. So I I wouldn't I would encourage people to to investigate every you know, the whole situation or something before they just start saying, oh, well, people should give this stuff away. It just doesn't work that easy. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2:Of course. Appreciate your call and your insight on that. Something
Speaker 3:I love about this show is that you get to see so many different sides with so many different issues. You know what I mean? I learned so much being on the show and listening to the show.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness. I have felt more connected to this community just being on the air with this program than I've had my entire life. And just being able to talk to all you guys out there in Juneau and just hear what's on your mind and your ideas, your insights, whatever it may be, I definitely greatly enjoy it. Absolutely. We do have a couple more minutes left of the program.
Speaker 2:So sorry, last caller, I will not be able to get you on today, but definitely join us tomorrow with Katie Boiser. And of course, anytime you could check out the podcast, Problem Corner, relisten to his past episodes or share it around, whatever it may be. So we'll go back to some recalls. So we had Mikey over in Haines, who's still doing his house and dog sitting services. He does need a heads up.
Speaker 2:He's looking to book out some dates for November through January. He does need transportation to and from the property. So if you're in the Haines area and you need some house or dog sending services, Mikey is there to help you out. You could call him at (907) 500-2611. And then we have the Klingon and Haida Elders Winter Package happening.
Speaker 2:So if you are an elder of Knove, an elder that might benefit from that package, you could give Klinken and Haida a call at (907) 463-7999. And then we had not anything else actually being sold. So we just had a lot of different topics today. I'd greatly appreciate it from everyone that called in with their topics. Showstopper, you didn't give me your real name, but feel free to swing by the station anytime this week before 5PM.
Speaker 2:We're actually probably closer to 4PM. So yeah, and that gives us a little buffer time to wrap up the day. So swing by anytime at the station before four and we can get you those tickets to go, hopefully go see Bruce Springsteen. That's the whole reason why I did that little trivia for you. So thank you, Devin, so much for joining Problem Corner today, and thank you so much for all the calls today.
Speaker 2:I greatly appreciate it, and I hope you have a good rest of your Wednesday. Absolutely. It's Problem Corner. We'll see you next time on KNY. Thanks
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